Yet for all their wealth and fame, Messi and Ronaldo have still not broken through in the U.S. market.

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Doesn't make any difference about their wealth and fame and notoriety.

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And then there was the case of Benjamin Morrell, who had drifted around the southern hemisphere between 1822 and 1831 in search of treasure, seals, wealth and fame.

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D. graduate, Mann attained wealth, fame and adulation among global warming alarmists after assembling a proxy temperature reconstruction that he claimed showed global temperatures underwent a steady, roughly 1, 000-year decline followed by a sharp rise during the 20th century.

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Taylor had extraordinary grace, fame and wealth, and won three Oscars, including a special one for her humanitarian work.

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Jennifer Lopez topped our Celebrity 100 last year (which measures fame and wealth) mostly thanks to her work on Idol.

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The answer lies inside the mop-topped head of polymath Nathan Myhrvold, the chief executive of Intellectual Ventures, who gained fame and wealth in his 14 years at Microsoft, retiring as chief technology officer in 2000.

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He enjoyed the wealth, the fame, the power (and famously gave none of his billions to charity).

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He skyrocketed to fame after releasing a wealth of demo recordings and mastered albums with groups such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Gypsy Sun and Rainbow and Band of Gypsys.

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